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You can collect coins after you die. The game tracks how many coins you collected.

You can collect spin tokens after you die. The game tracks how many times this happens.

You cannot collect vehicle powerups after you die. I've just managed to pass squarely above one using a post-mortem nuke; nothing happened. Unfortunately it happened too quickly for me to grab a screenshot.

You can see these numbers under the Death portion of your Statistics in the Stash.

I just now flew toward the flying 'M' as a missile was coming onto the screen. Unfortunately, the missile got me just before I was able to get the M. The animation in which you see Barry pulled forward and placed into S.A.M. still occurred, but there was a yellow outline (the burning outline when you're killed by a missile) around him. Then he was placed in S.A.M. and the outline was gone. S.A.M. moved forward at his normal speed, but I was unable to lift its arm.

After about five or ten seconds I was taken to the slot machine screen (game over) without being S.A.M. being destroyed. The polaroid on the menu screen is a picture of Barry inside of S.A.M., but it is hard to see because there is a slightly transparent yellow overlay covering the entire picture.

So, even though I picked the M up after dying, the game still registered that I was dead.